No Such Thing as Monday - by Siân Hughes (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

From a Booker Prize-longlisted author, a novel in which a woman tries to overcome her abusive past and find her estranged sister in a deeply moving and darkly funny quest for redemption

Foul-mouthed, scrappy, and self-destructive, Steffie is her own worst enemy. Sustained by her sardonic sense of humor, she spends her days working at a dry cleaner's and tending to her ailing, impoverished, abusive father. She was always his favorite, a fact that leaves her wracked with guilt; her sister Caroline, who bore the brunt of his rage, fled when they were both teenagers.

When her father dies, Steffie sets out to find Caroline, seeking love and forgiveness in a world which has too often denied her both. Along the way, she must confront her own memories, and the choices that have brought her to this point.

Written in the working-class British realist tradition of Douglas Stuart and Andrea Arnold, No Such Thing As Monday cements Hughes' reputation as an exceptional and compassionate chronicler of precarious and chaotic lives.

About the Author

Siân Hughes lives in rural Cheshire and is a Royal Literary Fund Writing Tutor based at the University of Liverpool. Her first collection of poetry, The Missing (Salt, 2009), was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and won the Seamus Heaney Award, among other accolades. Her first novel, Pearl, was longlisted for The Booker Prize in 2023 and shortlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award in 2024. It has been published in many languages worldwide. No Such Thing As Monday is her second novel.